ext4: avoid starting handle when dio writing an unwritten extent

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Since we have deferred the split of the unwritten extent until after I/O
completion, it is not necessary to initiate the journal handle when
submitting the I/O.

This can improve the write performance of concurrent DIO for multiple
files. The fio tests below show a ~25% performance improvement when
wirting to unwritten files on my VM with a mem disk.

  [unwritten]
  direct=1
  ioengine=psync
  numjobs=16
  rw=write     # write/randwrite
  bs=4K
  iodepth=1
  directory=/mnt
  size=5G
  runtime=30s
  overwrite=0
  norandommap=1
  fallocate=native
  ramp_time=5s
  group_reporting=1

 [w/o]
  w:  IOPS=62.5k, BW=244MiB/s
  rw: IOPS=56.7k, BW=221MiB/s

 [w]
  w:  IOPS=79.6k, BW=311MiB/s
  rw: IOPS=70.2k, BW=274MiB/s

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105014522.1937690-4-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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Zhang Yi 2026-01-05 09:45:18 +08:00 • committed by Theodore Ts'o

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